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Plants have senses that put humans to shame. Not only do they hear and smell, they can also sense the presence of water,
and even sense an object within their space. [This was suspected, scientifically verified, and largely ignored long ago from a series of botanical experiments published in The Secret Life of Plants.] Now new research suggests that plants
can actually learn and remember.

Even on the subordinate levels of the life scale, there is profound
consciousness -- an awareness that binds all sensitive things together. The Secret Life of Plants: A fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man (Peter Tompkins and
Christopher Bird) was published in
1973.

The book forwards the idea that plants are
sentient, despite the absence of a physical nervous system and brain. This
sentience is testable through changes in a plant's
conductivity, as measured with a polygraph, a technique pioneered by Cleve Backster.
The book also summarizes Goethe's theory of plant
metamorphosis.

But the book is about much more than
plants. It delves deeply into such topics as the aura,
psychophysics, orgone, radionics, Kirlian photography,
magnetism/magnetotropism, bioelectrics, dowsing, and the history of
science. It served as the basis for the 1979 documentary of the same name,
with a soundtrack especially recorded by Stevie Wonder.

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